ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on several major areas within airline operations with a view to highlighting the structure of specific relationships and duties that devolve from the international conventions and state laws that govern aviation. It focuses on the aviation practitioner, with an awareness of the scope and the broader implications of the aviation legal and regulatory requirements, at both the international and national level, as they apply to airline operations. The chapter examines that in order to manage an airline and indeed any operator of an aircraft, helicopter or airship, the operator must satisfy the regulatory authorities that it can do so safely and in conformance with all the national and international standards. Apart from the technical and operational aspects of airline operations, the chapter discusses that the commercial structure of the airline industry has also significantly altered, especially over the past few decades.
